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Working the campaign trail in shirt-sleeves and jeans, they're tossing off their neckties—and with them, a century of tradition.
Candidates Figure What Voters Need From Them Is a Good Dressing Down Elizabeth Williamson 2011
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Especially on winter evenings after tea, when the fire glows in the open range and dances mirrored in the steel fender, when Father, in shirt-sleeves, sits in the rocking chair at one side of the fire reading the racing finals, and Mother sits on the other with her sewing, and the children are happy with a pennorth of mint humbugs, and the dog lolls roasting himself on the rag mat.
Intimate History 2010
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Olimpiad Solomonovich Ioffe, who chaired the civil law department in the 1970s, lectured in shirt-sleeves, smoking and joking with his listeners, deliberately ignoring the usual protocol.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Casual clothes may also help the candidates reach young people disillusioned with that other shirt-sleeves candidate President Barack Obama .
Candidates Figure What Voters Need From Them Is a Good Dressing Down Elizabeth Williamson 2011
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But that very exasperation showed how surprising it was to see shirt-sleeves on the streets.
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We have an ad that was running out here from the incumbent governor, Chet Culver, who very earnestly standing in shirt-sleeves and says that he made some mistakes, but they're honest mistakes.
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A girl in rolled shirt-sleeves gazed at me amused.
Potsdamer Strasse #2 Jasoni 2011
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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, in shirt-sleeves and wearing a Detroit Tigers hat, told an audience of applauding GM workers that the new trade pact would boost jobs in the U.S. without threatening existing jobs in America.
GM's Small-Car Plan Matthew Dolan 2011
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We have an ad that was running out here from the incumbent governor, Chet Culver, who very earnestly standing in shirt-sleeves and says that he made some mistakes, but they're honest mistakes.
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But that very exasperation showed how surprising it was to see shirt-sleeves on the streets.
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